Storyfeather
333 episodes - English - Latest episode: 25 days ago - ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsI'm Nila, and I have stories to tell you. Stories in the genres of science fiction, fantasy, horror, fairy tale, mystery, and mythology. Mortals wield godly powers, eggs appear out of enchanted pockets, sentient substances are invented, and stars are incubated in the hearts of humans. Welcome to Storyfeather.
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My Food Is Speaking to Me
March 29, 2024 23:23 - 31 minutes - 43.9 MBDo the voices coming from the food in my fridge and pantry want to harm me, help me, or just…be? Genre: Science Fiction Excerpt: “Tell me I’m sane,” I said. There was a pause on the other end. And then he finally spoke. “I refuse.” I sighed. “Freddy, come on.” “Give me some context, then.” What’s the Writing Prompt that inspired the story? Describe each day of the week as food. Source: 500 Creative Prompts. Copyright © 2019 Piccadilly (USA) Inc. Fast...
Madeleine Miriam's Pizzapothecarium
March 22, 2024 07:50 - 32 minutes - 44.4 MBDuring his first week working at a unique pizzeria, Ronnie encounters some uncanny late-night customers, who place an order for the rarest pizza on the menu. Genre: Fantasy Excerpt: “What…what will this one do?” Ronnie asked as he folded fresh rosemary leaves and parmesan flakes into the dough. “It’ll make the customer swoon with pleasure upon first bite is what it will do.” Madeleine Miriam cocked an eyebrow. “And it’ll treat those infected gums on the left side of his jaw.” ...
Magenta Banana
March 15, 2024 21:56 - 31 minutes - 42.9 MBThree friends decide to do their science project on a forgotten novelty invention, a self-peeling banana. Genre: Science Fiction Excerpt: “What about dinosaurs?” I said after a few minutes. “We could do our project on how and why they went extinct. That’s exciting.” K.D. shook her head. “It might seem too basic. Like something we would have done in the fifth grade.” She loved dinosaurs. She probably didn’t want someone making fun of our project if it was about the thing she l...
Welcome to Thoughtsburger
March 08, 2024 17:31 - 30 minutes - 42.6 MBA young journalist follows her latest lead into a quirky fast food place located in her dreams. Genre: Mysterious Fantasy Excerpt: “Welcome to Thoughtsburger, would you like to try our new Weltschmerz platter with a side of Bitterness and Longing?” Ria stared at the person who had just addressed her. “Uh, no, thank you.” What’s the Writing Prompt that inspired the story? Write a menu for a fictional fast-food restaurant. Source: A Writer’s Year: 365 Creative Writing Pro...
A Tale of Nine Lemons
March 01, 2024 07:55 - 28 minutes - 39.8 MBTo help a young man seek his fortune and his purpose upon leaving home, his parents endow him with a parting gift, a basket of lemons. Genre: Fairy Tale Excerpt: The couple had thirteen children by the time they were finished siring. One by one, as each child came of age, they were sent out into the world to seek their fortunes and their purposes for themselves. To each child their parents gave one gift to help them on their way. And upon receiving their gifts, each child procla...
The Juggling Ghost Crab
February 24, 2024 01:20 - 33 minutes - 46.3 MBTo save her friends and herself from being eaten, a ghost crab enters a juggling contest with a devious and possibly unbeatable opponent. Genre: Fable Excerpt: Four unlikely friends were frolicking in the ocean one day. They were the Ghost Crab, the Blue Marlin, the Jellyfish, and the Nautilus. The crab and the marlin splashed about on the surface, and dove back down, while the jelly and the mollusk bobbed gently under the surface. Overhead, there passed the shadow of the Seagull,...
They Linger in the Deep
February 16, 2024 07:45 - 22 minutes - 30.9 MBWhen a young man sees his reflection in a pool as he has never seen it before, he is both mesmerized and suspicious. Genre: Mythology Excerpt: One day, he had an enticing thought. Then he chastised himself and told himself it was a silly and foolish thought. He shook his head as if shaking off the thought, but it was a sticky thought. It would not be forgotten. And so, he leaned down closer to his reflection, closer and closer, until his lips touched the surface of the water, ...
The Ogre and the Elf Go To Honeymoon City
February 09, 2024 07:45 - 23 minutes - 31.9 MBLongtime lovers the ogre and the elf each recall the first few days of their honeymoon a bit differently. Genre: Fairy Tale Excerpt: The ogre snapped her fingers and furrowed her warty brow. “What was the name of the place where we stayed…was it…the Twilight Twinklings Inn?” “No darling, that was for our first anniversary, when we went up north to see the lights.” The ogre brought her fist down on the table, making the forks jump. “Might of the Mermaid! That’s the place.” ...
The Incident at Soruquenty Beach
February 02, 2024 07:52 - 28 minutes - 39.5 MBAn urban legend about a haunting phenomenon occurring in a little beach town becomes a news story when escalating incidents lead to the beaching of what appears to be a telepathic whale. Genre: Science Mystery Excerpt: “You’re looking for a story.” “Yes.” “My story.” “That’s right. What’s your story? Where did you come from? How did you get inside that whale?” What’s the Writing Prompt that inspired the story? You’re barefoot in the sand on a beach, and the wa...
Jukebox Time Portal
January 26, 2024 07:53 - 48 minutes - 66.6 MBThe inventor of a working time machine takes her closest friend on what was meant to be a quick trip to the near future. Genre: Science Fantasy Excerpt: I didn’t panic right away when Violeta said she had succeeded in building a working time machine. All of her inventions worked. All of them. But all her other inventions were a lot less…ambitious. I mean, a time machine. That’s the ultimate invention, isn’t it? What’s the Writing Prompt that inspired the story? Drawing cha...
The Hippocampus and the Menagerie
January 19, 2024 07:45 - 44 minutes - 61.2 MBA fearful and captive servant, who tends a menagerie of unique and captive creatures, is dazzled by the arrival of a most magnificent creature known as a hippocampus. Genre: Fantasy Excerpt: At the center of my memory is the image of a horse, a horse the color of orange cream, rearing up, and glancing at me, with an oceanic glint in her eye. She has wings. She has fins. She is fast. I remember. She was fast. Slicing through the water like a ray of sunlight. So I don’t know how...
The Obsidian Tusks
January 12, 2024 07:45 - 21 minutes - 29.3 MBIn life and beyond, the elephant king seeks only one aim, to protect his people from despair. Genre: Fable Excerpt: As the elephant king lay dying, struck silent by his pain, able only to breathe shattered breaths, his mind thought its last thoughts. He could forgive the ones who had killed him. But forgiveness would do his people no good. He could lay a curse upon the ones who had killed him, villains and villagers alike. He was a king. The ghosts of his ancestors would answer...
A Most Discourteous Interview
January 05, 2024 09:42 - 28 minutes - 38.8 MBA nervous young job-seeker’s interview is constantly interrupted by what seem to be personal phone calls to the interviewer, but from different callers. Genre: Fairy Tale Excerpt: I was nervous. Okay…yes, obviously. Obviously I was nervous. This one, I really, really wanted. Based on the description. Field investigation and research. Constant travel, mostly domestic, but some international travel might be required. Opportunities to advance, to earn further education, to earn money...
The Automated Fortune Line
December 29, 2023 07:45 - 32 minutes - 44.9 MBA man seeks the help of a psychic after he experiences an unusual haunting from an automated phone line. Genre: Mysterious Fantasy Excerpt: “My life is still following the path he laid out for me.” Madame Granya frowned. “Who?” I stared at her. I wasn’t really struggling with whether or not I should tell her. I was just not telling her. I had nothing on my mind in that moment. I was…stuck, maybe. And then I spoke. “Me,” I said. I laughed, a self-mocking laugh. “Him. The voice…...
Roxie's Wake-up Call
December 22, 2023 22:29 - 37 minutes - 52.1 MBSammy receives an unusual birthday gift, a smart device with a face, a set life span, and an unrelenting imperative to help. Genre: Science Fiction Excerpt: The figurine suddenly collapsed, then sprung up, wheeled her arms around, stretched them out, then up, then bopped up and down by bending at the knees. She gazed up at Sammy. “Hello there!” she said. “Are you the one who needs help?” Sammy said nothing. The figurine’s movements were smooth and graceful and quiet. She made no...
Seven Signs of Impossible Times
December 15, 2023 09:59 - 33 minutes - 45.8 MBA reporter and camera operator expect to uncover a hoax when they investigate sightings of flying pigs, but soon find themselves on the path of a much stranger story. Genre: Fantastic Mystery Excerpt: “The boss wants us to relate it to the flying pigs story,” Quentin said. They were driving out to another farm, within the county this time. And this time, it was a commercial farm where the workers had reported that the chickens had begun growing teeth. What’s the Writing P...
The Galactic Analyst
December 08, 2023 07:45 - 21 minutes - 29.6 MBWhen unexpectedly asked about their profession, a person accustomed to remaining unnoticed until needed debates about how to tell the truth—spectacularly, or mundanely. Genre: Science Fantasy Excerpt: I noticed him seeming to notice me, and I found that so unlikely that I almost frowned. I was extremely skilled at remaining unnoticed. The Queen of the Hollow Yellow Moon had once proclaimed that I had the power to turn invisible. Of course, there’s no such thing. At least, I haven’t ...
The Children of the Rain and the Sun
December 01, 2023 07:46 - 23 minutes - 32.3 MBWhen the once-inseparable children of the Rain and the Sun quarrel and go their separate ways, they set in motion dire consequences for their parents and for the world. Genre: Mythology Excerpt: When they were young, the seven children of the Rain and the Sun were inseparable. They were magnificent, these children. When they were born, so too were colors born into the world. And the colors bore the names of the seven children. Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo, and Violet. ...
The Shifting Night Anomaly
November 24, 2023 23:48 - 41 minutes - 57 MBA spaceship built for short-range research is re-tasked with the mission of traversing a vast and mysterious anomaly. Genre: Mystery, Science Fiction Excerpt: The Shifting Night Anomaly was so called at first be-cause its margins seemed to change every so often, making it difficult, if not impossible, to map. We had sent probe after probe inside for three generations. Out of the near thousand probes that were deployed, only forty-seven were recovered. The more we learned about the a...
The Galvanic Ghost
November 17, 2023 22:19 - 39 minutes - 54 MBA woman entreats a student of medicine for help with an extraordinary and destructive condition, she can conduct massive amounts of electricity. Genre: Mystery, Science Fiction Excerpt: I am only a student. That’s why she came to me, trusting that I would have a sufficient balance of knowledge and naiveté to serve her desperate need. And I am woman. That’s why she came to me, trusting that I would not mark her concerns as mere hysterics. What was this strange and destructive con...
Lickspittle and Sobersides
November 11, 2023 07:48 - 40 minutes - 55.1 MBHigh jinks ensue when two caterpillar fairies who are close to death attend a grand fairy ball as a last hurrah. Genre: Fable, Fairy Tale, Fantasy Excerpt: “Alas! We are doomed to die as caterpillars, never having become butterflies.” Lickspittle shook hishead. He gazed up and shook several fists at the sky. Sobersides sighed gravely. “Perhaps tomorrow morning.” The two caterpillar fairies had woken that morning, and that meant that they were still caterpillars. And that would h...
The Bombinating Engine
November 03, 2023 19:55 - 31 minutes - 43.3 MBThe crew of a prospecting freighter on the edge of known space makes an unexpected discovery about their outdated and recently replaced engine. Genre: Science Fiction Excerpt: Cruising along at the edges of known space, the Vesta was among the last ships to receive the engine upgrade. But it wasn’t just distance that caused the delay. The t-drives were expensive. And unlike large organizations who could absorb the cost, individual contractors like Ryan and his crew had to weigh thei...
Elevator 6F
October 27, 2023 22:46 - 46 minutes - 63.8 MBSix people get stuck on an elevator, but when the elevator starts moving again, their true ordeal begins. Genre: Horror, Mystery Excerpt: It wasn’t where any of us wanted to go, but we all stepped off the elevator as if by some instinct to escape the place where we’d been trapped, even if it had just been less than an hour. At a glance, we could see that the sixth floor was empty. No one was there. Nothing was there. Aside from the support pillars, it was an open empty space. Wh...
Lodgers in the Attic
October 20, 2023 23:35 - 47 minutes - 65.4 MBA new homeowner must decide how to deal with the uncanny and uninvited inhabitants discovered in the attic. Genre: Horror, Mystery Content Warning: Animals in supernatural danger. Excerpt: One of my friends told me a terrifying story she’d read about. This guy was living in a house where a family lived, without their knowledge, for the longest time. He hid in some hidden closet they didn’t know about. He’d come out at night when they were sleeping, to use their shower and eat thei...
The Hollow Temple
October 13, 2023 22:43 - 32 minutes - 44.9 MBWhat happens when two treasure-seekers cross a forbidden threshold and trespass within an ancient temple? Genre: Horror, Mystery, Mythology Excerpt: “Greetings, travelers,” the temple guardian said. “Give me your names.” The two treasure-seekers gave her their names freely. She did not return their offer of names, nor did she return their smiles. “Turn back, travelers,” the temple guardian said, her voice calm and measured. “Go no further than the spot where I now stand.” ...
Maugre Death We Walk
October 06, 2023 21:48 - 39 minutes - 54.9 MBA young reporter investigating a case of vanishing corpses interviews a town recluse, who may be trying to help him…or silence him. Genre: Horror, Mystery Excerpt: …he realized she was one of the missing corpses. He couldn’t recall her name, only her face. He watched from outside as she appeared to be making small talk with the cashier. He decided he would catch her on the way out of the convenience store. But as she left and walked past him, he didn’t stop her. What would he sa...
The Last Honest Vampire
September 29, 2023 17:58 - 35 minutes - 48.7 MBFor two friends, watching the new season of their favorite show may have to wait while one of them contends with a potentially life-changing event. Genre: Fantasy Excerpt: “Sometimes I think it’s kind of nice that vampires are accepted in this fictional society,” Glo said. My attention perked up. That was different. But the response from the rest of our friends was not. “That would be like chickens living among us and being okay that we eat them.” “That show is dumb. They have...
A Coat for Many Dimensions
September 22, 2023 23:23 - 40 minutes - 55.4 MBAn alchemist attempts to create a coat that will allow her to travel to other dimensions. Genre: Fantasy Excerpt: Aunt Mariya was certain that she had solved the mystery of the many dimensions. All of us could do it, but our minds and bodies prevented us from going, be-cause the environments in these other dimensions were different. Some were slightly different. Some more drastically so. One would die as certainly as a diver without oxygen and a space-walker without a spacesuit woul...
The Solar Pepper
September 15, 2023 23:07 - 44 minutes - 61.3 MBWhen a country suffers a curse that extinguishes all but the tiniest of flames, its people strive in spectacular ways to endure, to elude, and to break the curse. Genre: Fantasy, Mystery Excerpt: “Let it be as you claim,” the warlock said. “That there is ‘not enough fire’ in your country.” And then he spoke the words of his spell, his curse. And from thenceforth, only candle flames could abide in our country. What’s the Word (that inspired the story)? Heck if I know. There d...
The Mystery of Mrs. Highweather
September 08, 2023 22:39 - 39 minutes - 54.6 MBWhen a new father searches through his childhood books for stories to tell his daughter, he learns that some of those books are linked to a hundred-year-old mystery. Genre: Mystery, Fantasy Excerpt: For generations, for nearly a century, the Rofotou family had been gathering the pieces of a puzzle that they believed would unlock some grand secret of the universe, or some extravagant treasure, or at least some profound piece of wisdom. But I didn’t know anything about that before a d...
The Traveler and Her Three Shadows
September 01, 2023 03:42 - 44 minutes - 61.6 MBAfter their realm is cursed to suffer absolute darkness, four companions are tasked with finding the secret of breaking the curse. Genre: Mythology, Fantasy Excerpt: In those days, all people had the power to send their shadows off to explore the world around them, but those shadows could only travel in one direction, the direction in which they were cast by the sun. But these people with two shadows, they could send one shadow in one direction and the other shadow in the opposite d...
Castle Farouche
August 25, 2023 22:28 - 40 minutes - 55.3 MBThere is a door in the basement of my new house that leads to nowhere, or so I thought… Genre: Fairy Tale, Fantasy Excerpt: When buds are twisted too tightly, they will never bloom beautifully, my grandmother always said, all the more so after she’d witness my staying in my little corner of the room at a party in our house while the other children played with each other. But she did not know that I was surrounded by friends in my own world, in Castle Farouche. That is…I didn’t thi...
Longpocket
August 18, 2023 07:29 - 34 minutes - 47 MBA young boy seeks to make his mother proud by picking the pocket of a man whose fortunes no one has ever managed to steal, not even the master thieves. Genre: Fantasy Excerpt: In the town of Pennyhaven, there was honor among thieves. For thieving was allowed, but only if done according to the strictest of rules, which were set by the Union of Thieves. The Union had a truce with the local constabulary to deal with any thief in town who did not abide by those rules. Their highest an...
A Waking Walker in Slumberland
August 11, 2023 17:38 - 51 minutes - 70.4 MBTo rescue her kidnapped infant sister from a magical monarch, Parni and her pet rat enter the dream realm and pass through nightmare and illusion. Genre: Fairy Tale, Fantasy Excerpt: Three days has passed since Parnika’s baby sister, Kulfi, has been taken by the Marshmallow Monarch. Such was the price of living in a town that bordered the famed and infamous slumberland—the source of all dreams and nightmares. Most people only ever visited slumberland in their dreams. But Parni’s p...
The Impassable Valley of the Flowers
August 04, 2023 06:55 - 41 minutes - 56.8 MBA sixteen-year-old decides that her first journey alone will be into a forbidden valley of flowers that lies just beyond her town. Genre: Fairy Tale, Fantasy Excerpt: There is a valley, where grow flowers of every hue and kind, colors and fragrance in harmony. They singsongs, it is said, in spring and summer, songs whose ghosts and echoes can be heard in winter and fall. These flowers are singular, for each is inhabited by an animating spirit. The valley is haunted, they say. ...
The Antechamber
July 28, 2023 07:16 - 29 minutes - 41.1 MBResearchers on the verge of a medical breakthrough must investigate why their advanced surgical machine works perfectly on some patients, and not at all on others. Genre: Science Fiction Excerpt: Waiting. We’ve been waiting for thirty minutes. A nuisance, maybe, if I were out in the world on an er-rand or anticipating someone’s arrival. But here, in the antechamber, poised on the threshold of themost important thing I will ever do with my life, or the grandest failure of my life, th...
Velutinus
July 21, 2023 07:37 - 36 minutes - 50.3 MBA group of friends recruits one of their dads, a biology teacher, to help them identify a strange creature they discovered after a freak storm hits their town. Genre: Science Fiction Excerpt: Dani, Jon, Ameena and I had volunteered to help clean up the school after the flash storm hit our town a few days ago. We would get our community service requirement done for that quarter. And we would have been hanging out anyway. “Safety first,” Dani said. And we all smiled and started work...
Into Stasis
July 14, 2023 06:45 - 35 minutes - 48.3 MBA wealthy capitalist steals a rare and cutting-edge piece of technology in the hopes of developing it for public use. Genre: Mystery, Science Fiction Excerpt: “I have plenty of possessions and plenty of currency. And if ever I were to lose any of it, I know how to acquire more. But there is one currency that I cannot make more of. And do you know what that is, Leeke?” I paused long enough for her to response with a shake of her head. “Time. I have as much, and as little, as every ot...
Lexinkeo
July 07, 2023 08:21 - 33 minutes - 46.1 MBOn the eve of giving one of the most important speeches of his life, the greatest orator in the known worlds develops a condition that renders him speechless. Genre: Mystery, Science Fiction Excerpt: “Me for? For…me…only? No, not. For all.” Quin peered at the man who was her mentor, her friend, and now, her charge. It was late, and they were both tired. But she believed that she under-stood what he was trying to say, as he took in the flurry of effort that was being directed towar...
The Mora
June 30, 2023 06:51 - 37 minutes - 50.9 MBTo save the woman they both love, two men enter a forest where magic cannot abide, and any magic that enters unravels in unexpected and dangerous ways. Genre: Fairy Tale, Mythology, Fantasy Excerpt: It was a time when dragonflies could flutter all the way up to the moon, when the flickering of a hummingbird’s wings was faster than lightning. It was a time when the growl of thunder signified the coming of a catastrophe, a cracking of the earth, a roiling of the seas, a shuddering o...
The Moonbroch
June 23, 2023 06:45 - 42 minutes - 58.7 MBA starry-eyed youth seeks to entreat the man in the moon to stop the lunar fairies from causing terrible storms in the earthen realm. Genre: Mythology, Fairy Tale, Fable Excerpt: The starry-eyed youth named Carson cast his gaze at the full moon. His father had just cursed it, or rather, he had cursed those who dwelt upon it. “A storm is coming,” his father said, gazing up at the low and looming clouds. “A storm with high winds.” Yet another storm, the fourth one in as many days....
The Last Wish of Caducus the Wizard
June 16, 2023 06:57 - 29 minutes - 40.3 MBA dying wizard forges a pair of enchanted rings to help himself fulfill his last wish, to speak with his baby granddaughter. Genre: Fantasy Excerpt: When my grandfather, the humble and ordinary wizard Caducus, first heard the whispers of the after-world summoning him, he decided to heed the call, but only after achieving his last wish. My grandfather’s trade always gave him strength, even as time drained that strength away. The race could not abide forever. One of the runners must...
Contest Chevelure
June 09, 2023 06:45 - 38 minutes - 52.4 MBA modest town at the foot of the mountain holds a contest every summer with a powerful prize. Genre: Mystery, Mythology Excerpt: The Contest Chevelure was a time-honored competition held in a modest town in the middle of a modest country. It was a contest to see who could have the most extravagant and beautiful head of hair. Only, there was one notable detail. None of the people in the town had any hair on their heads. What’s the Word (that inspired the story)? Chevelure: a h...
A Handbook of Universal Truths
June 02, 2023 06:45 - 30 minutes - 41.9 MBA researcher comes across a legendary text and is overwhelmed by the knowledge contained within. Genre: Mystery, Mythology Excerpt: I glanced at the clean white bandage wrapped around her left hand and a good ways down her wrist. “It’s going to be all right,” I said. “I’m here to help.” The steely-eyed woman sitting across from me in the booth gave a single nod. She wasted no time on small talk and launched straight into her first question. “The Axiom Enchiridion, ever heard of it...
The Cosmic Hourglass
May 26, 2023 09:02 - 39 minutes - 53.7 MBA mortal apprentice to an immortal being is tempted to steal the great powers contained within the Cosmic Hourglass to tilt the balance of the cosmos toward good. Genre: Mythology Excerpt: When young mortals were told the story of the Cosmic Hourglass for the first time, and taught to cherish each speck of sand, many would ask a question that their teachers foresaw (and had themselves asked). Why sand? The teachers would smile, for this was one of the questions they were ready t...
All the Mirrors Are Broken
May 19, 2023 07:43 - 35 minutes - 48.3 MBA private investigator who thinks she’s chasing a thief realizes that her case may be linked to her own uncanny past, and a truth she may not be ready to face. Genre: Mystery Excerpt: She didn’t let me into her house, but she did give me the trash bag with the broken shards of the mirror. And she did agree to take a picture of the mirror’s remnants with my camera. (She frowned when Iteased her not to steal it.) My phone had a better lens than that old camera, but this wasn’t the fir...
The Magic Triptych
May 12, 2023 07:51 - 37 minutes - 51.1 MBEvery year on her birthday, the daughter of a mage receives a key that unlocks a different world in her enchanted triptych. Genre: Fairy Tale, Fantasy Excerpt: When I was born, a clever mage, who was also my mother, made for me a triptych: three panels, attached in a row by hinges, depicting paintings of our home. The middle panel depicted our capital city, where we lived. The left panel depicted my mother, her hands raised as if in the casting of a spell. The right panel depicted t...
The Forest of the Dasollagi
May 05, 2023 18:09 - 57 minutes - 79.5 MBA student seeking to learn the craft of enchantment is challenged to pass through a forest filled with strange obstacles. Genre: Fairy Tale, Fantasy, Mythology Excerpt: “Wait until you are within the borders of the forest before you open the box, else you have failed before you have begun.” With those words, the schoolmaster turned away and left Naji alone before the borders of the forest. Naji entered the forest with no other possessions but that box, as the test required. He c...
A Tiny Man in a Giant Land
April 28, 2023 08:36 - 39 minutes - 54.6 MBTwo cousins decide to visit the mysterious isle of giants, and to steal portions of treasure small enough to escape a giant’s notice, but large enough to make their fortunes. Genre: Fairy Tale, Fantasy Excerpt: “We will live in their house, as mice live in ours. Wes hall never want for anything. One slice of their bread could feed us for half a year.” Slubber slapped me on the back. “Cousin, I have always thought you clever, but this is beyond clever. This is true brilliance.” “Mice. ...
A Simple Procedure
April 21, 2023 06:45 - 45 minutes - 62.7 MBALERT: This episode contains a fictionalized depiction of a panic attack and heartbeat sound effects. Please listen with caution. A patient checks into the hospital for a simple procedure and experiences remarkable side effects. Genre: Science Fiction, Fantasy Excerpt: It was a simple procedure. A simple procedure. I would be admitted to the hospital overnight. I had to be fasting. Except for some clear liquid that the nurse would have me drink every four hours. It contained ...